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My ETL will assign me things like sales planners or price change and she’ll specifically emphasize me doing whatever tasks she lays out.

No, I just have other legitimate things to worry about instead of some troll account.

I’ve already mentioned that I don’t have the freedom to push where I want. My ETL has her instructions for me and I just do what I’m told.

I don’t think that fixing the culture is going to help us. Our backroom is a congested mess, filled with days worth of roll-over truck. We’ve resorted to pulling TM’s from other parts of the store (front end, Style, etc) to help push all of this roll-over and try to get us somewhat caught up.

I'm at the mercy of my ETL. I go where she tells me to go and that's as much as I can do.

You have some nerve to be asking me that. I was a TM before being a lead. I know where I come from and I don’t need to imagine how I’d feel. I already know the feeling, thank you very much.

So I'm the one who gets fired because others aren't coming clean? If my Toy DBO is failing to meet his goals, then it's him who should be fired, not me.

I'm a GMTL who was promoted from GM Team member. The long story short is that my GM team doesn't like that my SD and GM ETL have started to become more strict about enforcing freight push goals. Me and other leaders have been keeping an extra close eye on the team in terms how long it takes for...

My SD has always preferred to keep promotions within the same department. She just views it as less of a hassle in terms of training. And on top of that, Jim's development has been squarely in the confines of GM and we already have a front end TM being prepped for the front end role.

But he's not being challenging in the sense that he's helping either of us grow as a leader and improving the work place. He's just coming off as stoic and emotionless whenever I speak to him. It's like talking to Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad.

Going back to what you said about him "challenging" me and being "passionate". He's not being challenging or passionate. He's just coming across to me as stoic and emotionless. That can't be a good quality for someone who's looking to lead a team, can it?

What about conflicts of interest with other TM's? I know for a fact that he actively parties and hangs out with other TM's from around the store. My SD has definitely tried to crack down on TL's and their subordinates hanging out with each other outside of work because of the potential for...

What exactly would qualify as misconduct?

So that's it then? He gives me attitude and gets rewarded for it with a promotion?

I'm a GM Team Leader who was promoted back in September. Before my promotion, I would occasionally butt heads with another GM Team Member whom we'll just refer to as "Jim". Even before I began my leadership development, I would try to take charge and establish myself as a leader whom other TM's...